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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 (of 10)

Note 341 — TALE OF KAMAR AL-ZAMAN, (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation

"Nihil usitatius apud monachos, cardinales, sacrificulos," says Johannes de la Casa Beneventius Episcopus, quoted by Burton Anat. of Mel. lib. iii. Sect. 2; and the famous epitaph on the Jesuit,

Ci-gît un Jesuite:

Passant, serre les fesses et passe vite!

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